Real World Economics – Migration

Jackie Wahba,
University of Southampton

Economics

Jackie Wahba is a Professor of Economics at the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom. She obtained her PhD from the Department of Economics at the University of Southampton and her MA in Economics from the American University in Cairo.

She is an applied economist with substantial experience in international migration and labour markets in developing countries. She leads the migration strand within the ESRC-funded Centre for Population Change at Southampton.

She has been Principal Investigator on several large research grants. She has published in several leading Economics journals e.g. the Economic Journal, Journal of Development Economics, and Journal of Population Economics.

She has also acted as an advisor to several international organisations, including the EC, World Bank, and OECD on international migration and labour market related issues. She is a Research Fellow of IZA, CReAM, and ERF and is currently a member of the Scientific International Migration Panel of IUSSP and the Managing Editor of the IZA Journal of Labor & Development.